The Virginian Lottery and Virgil

People used to play the Virginian lottery, they would have the works of Virgil. They would open it to a certain page and that would have some kind of predictive, sort of telling the future or a kind of fortune. When Knox found himself in a bombed out farmhouse in Italy, when he was working with the partisans in World War II, he found a copy of Virgilian poem. And so he opens to a page and it's a page about marching armies, ancient marching armies, marching over the very terrain that he was marching over himself.